Guarded caster.



No. 823,408. PATENTBD .TUNE 12, 1906.

A. P. SY. GUARDB ASTER. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 01:4, 1905.

. ter projects below the same.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1906.

Application filed October 4,1905. Serial No. 281.293.

To all whom, t nca/y concern:

Be it known that I, ALONZO FERNANDO I-IASSY, of New Orleans, parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Guarded Casters, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a caster which may be applied to any article of furniture having legs-such, for example, as bedsteads, refrigerators, tables, chairs, and the like-and which is provided with an insect-guard that is shaped to constitute a finish for the leg to which it is adapted to be applied and which is adjustable with reference thereto, so as to preserve the symmetry and iinish of a castered article without impairment of its eiiiciency as an insect-guard.

In the accompanying drawings, which constitute a part of this a plication, Figure I is a side elevation of one orm of embodiment of my invention applied to the leg of a piece of furniture of which the lower end appears. Fig. II is a diametrical vertical section of the subject-matter of Fig. I, partially in elevation. Fig. III is a view similar to Fig. II, showing a slight modification of the castersocket and showing the guard adjustable upon the socket instead of upon the castershank, as shown in Fig. II.

Referring to the numerals on the drawings, l indicates the end of a leg, which is presented as a representative of the le of any piece of furniture and which is provided with the usual socket -piece, (indicated by the numeral 2 in Fig. II of the drawings and by the numeral 3 in Fig. III of the drawings.) The socket-piece accommodates a shank, (indicated by the numerals 4 in Fig. II and by the numeral 5 in Fig. III.) The difference between the socket-pieces 2 and 3 is that the former ends flush with the end of the leg and the lat- The shank 4 or 5 carries a caster 6, which may be swiveled to the shank upon the reduced end 7 in the usual manner and provided with a roller 8. Anyv preferred form of caster may be employed.

My invention consists in providing the caster with a guard 10, which is provided with a corrugated inner wall 1l. It may be threaded to the shank of the caster, as Vindicated in Fig. II of the drawings, or it may be threaded to the socket 3, as indicated in Fig. III thereof. The illustration aHorded in Figs. II and III is desi ned to indicate that the guard l() is genera y adjustable to and from the end of the leg l without special regard to the particular member which carries it. The guard is provided with an abutmentscrew 14, by means whereof it may be fixedly secured in any position with reference to the end of the leg to which it may be adjustable. The important feature of my invention is in providing a guard member which may be employed to constituteunobstructively and unobstrusively a finish to the end of the leg toA which it is attached. I-Ieretofore insectguards have been objectionable in use upon ornamental furniture because they were too obtrusive, if not ostentatious in appearance. By my invention the guard may be adjusted to such close propinquity to the' end of the leg to which it is attached as to be scarcely detectable and at the same time to afford complete rotection against insects, which in some c imates are exceedingly pestiferous.

In practice the legs of the article to be equipped with my invention are fitted with casters of suitable size and each having a guard of proper dimensions. The employment for that purpose of a socket-piece is preferably for the security it affords in mounting the shank in the end of the leg, as well as for the freedom of movement which it affords to the shank when inserted into it. The guard is then adjusted to the required distance from the end of the leg and is secured in lace by the abutment-screw 14. The guarcf) is, as illustrated, a cup-like rece tacle, adapted to contain a liquid, preferably of viscous consistency, which will serve to entrap any insect that enters the interior of the guard. The corrugated wall with which the interior of the guard is finished has a tendency to prevent escape of the liquid in the ordinary movement of furniture from place to place. The outside of the guard, besides being made of dimensions to correspond to the leg to which it is r plied, may be painted or otherwise finished) in imitation of the material of which the leg is made.

What I claim is- The combination with a caster provided With a cup-shaped insect-guard having a corrugated internal wall, said wall being adapted to conne a liquid.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALONZO FERNANDO HASSY.

Witnesses 1....

GEO. O. THOMAS, W. H. GRN.

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